On a scale from 1 to 10, rate your team's Front Office

[Fencer reregistered]

Brad Stevens turned Kemba Walker, Marcus Smart, Robert Williams, Aaron Nesmith and a bunch of picks into Derrick White, Jrue Holiday, Kristaps Porzingis and Al Horford.

He also found Sam Hauser on the scrap heap, recovered Luke Kornet from the scrap heap, hired two pretty good head coaches in Ime Udoka and Joe Mazzulla, and supported Mazzulla in hiring a great staff as well.

Top marks.

[HomoSapien]

Bulls: 0

[SweaterBae]

Portland is a 0.

[Mavrelous]

Nico Harrison -- 3
Wasted last year of Luka with a horrible roster, everyone saw it coming except him, still trusts Jason Kidd who fooled him into 2 bad signings and failed as a coach last year and this year.
Created an old team and had to trade 2 future 1sts, 2 swaps, just to get back to decent young roster.

[CodeBreaker]

5/10

for not being able to get Dame Time

[bledredwine]

Bulls fan. 10.

[dygaction]

Nico Harrison -- 3
Wasted last year of Luka with a horrible roster, everyone saw it coming except him, still trusts Jason Kidd who fooled him into 2 bad signings and failed as a coach last year and this year.
Created an old team and had to trade 2 future 1sts, 2 swaps, just to get back to decent young roster.

Different opinion here
Nico Harrison -- 9

The -1 was for keeping Kidd. Look at the talent and youth overturn he was able to achieve:
These players are still on the Mavs: Maxi Kleber, Josh Green, Jaden Hardy, Dwight Powell

2022-2023 season beginning with Luka:
Dorian Finney-Smith - Undrafted
Reggie Bullock - fsp #25
Spencer Dinwiddie - 2nd 38th overall
JaVale McGee - fsp #18
Christian Wood - undrafted
Theo Pinson - undrafted
McKinley Wright IV - undrafted

2024 now:
Kyrie Irving - fsp #1
Lively II - fsp #12
PJ Washington - fst #12
Derrick Jones Jr. - undrafted
Daniel Gafford 2nd 38th overall
Dante Exum - fsp #5
Olivier-Maxence Prosper - fsp #24

Cancel the same terms, that's basically trading #25, #18, and three undrafted to #1, #5, 2x #12, and #24 while becoming so much younger and also healthier in salary.

[sca]

Minnesota-8&1/2.

No offense but what a strange way to write 8.5

Is it an American thing to use fractions instead of decimals?

[Zvaart]

i rate the dubs' FO lightyears

[Fencer reregistered]

Minnesota-8&1/2.

No offense but what a strange way to write 8.5

Is it an American thing to use fractions instead of decimals?

Maybe he's a Fellini fan.

[FarBeyondDriven]

7/10. I'm still skeptical. We haven't drafted great and we still have glaring needs and did absolutely nothing to address them. I'm afraid we're going to be stuck as pretenders for several years which imo is the worst place to be. It seems to make a large portion of our fanbase happy and content though because in comparison to recent years it's a huge improvement but I remember the late 90s/early 00s when we were vying for championships and we're nowhere near that level and that's where I would need us to be to be happy with our F.O. I hold them to that standard not against what we've had to endure the past two decades.

[FarBeyondDriven]

Brad Stevens turned Kemba Walker, Marcus Smart, Robert Williams, Aaron Nesmith and a bunch of picks into Derrick White, Jrue Holiday, Kristaps Porzingis and Al Horford.

He also found Sam Hauser on the scrap heap, recovered Luke Kornet from the scrap heap, hired two pretty good head coaches in Ime Udoka and Joe Mazzulla, and supported Mazzulla in hiring a great staff as well.

Top marks.

he and Riley are the two best in the game

[Sealab2024]

Minnesota-8&1/2.

No offense but what a strange way to write 8.5

Is it an American thing to use fractions instead of decimals?

No, I work in the trades so I use fractions for measuring all the time. Just an idiosyncrasy.

[Message Boar]

Eh, a 6, I guess.

They're a bit passive for my liking, but they've definitely built an interesting young core. The grade will go down this offseason if they fail to make moves for some complementary players before the Franz/Paolo(/Suggs) extensions kick in, though. I might have gone with a 7 if early returns didn't suggest that they fumbled the 2023 draft.

[Duffman100]

7? For the Raptors.

Obviously the title, drafting Scottie, finding some nice players later in the draft and unsigned.

Last couple of years saw some missteps. No value for FVV, traded siakam too late.

I like what they’ve done to pivot so we’ll see. Barnes, Dick, Quickley, Barrett, Trent, Ogbaji all under 25.

With Poeltl, Olynyk as vets. Brown as a trade chip.

And while they owe the 2024 pick for Poeltl (likely) they own the rest of their firsts and have two of the Pacers firsts plus a pistons 2nd. No bad contracts on the team.

[UcanUwill]

10

Haha, what a gangster pic, brilliant

Suns: 4


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I don't get the hate suns fans give their front office. Current front office made the following key moves:

• traded ariza for oubre: solid move, oubre played a lot better for the suns than ariza did.
• traded 6th pick (Culver) for 14th (Cam Johnson) and Dario Saric: steal.
• sold TJ Warren: bad move in a vacuum, but this opened up cap space to sign Rubio who helped the suns get 0.5 games from making the playoffs. The Suns already had bridges, oubre as their wings, didn't have enough money to retain all 3 and PG was a huge area of need.
• took a flyer on cam payne: solid
• traded Rubio, Oubre and a late first rounder for Chris Paul: absolute steal.
• drafted Jalen Smith: idiotic, Haliburton was gift wrapped for the suns and would have been a perfect successor to CP3.
• re-signed Ayton to a max: can't really blame them there, if the alternative was to have him walk for nothing.
• traded for KD: IMO a very solid trade that by all reports got pushed by the owner. However I get that not all suns fans agree.
• signed shamet to a multi year deal: dud - shamet never fit well and it was puzzling that he got a pretty nice contract right off the bat.
• traded CP3 and shamet and some pick swaps for Beal : steal IMO, both guys played pretty poorly in their last year as a sun.
• traded off season aquistions for Royce O'Neal: great move.

Overall, passing up on Haliburton was terrible, they mishandled the whole Ayton situation and inexplicably gave shamet a bunch of money.

But I'd argue that the good moves offset the bad ones.

I'd give the current front office no less than a 6.

I would not rate Suns office if I was a fan, since they obviously had to deal with so called new owner hands on syndrome. Key moves this past year were obviously forced by new owner, front office were just executioners at the end.

[mediocrityrules]

I would have rated the Bucks FO pretty high until the disastrous Griffin hire. Until then they hadn't done too badly overall, with several missteps, but hasn't every front office. The Griffin hire however was inexcusable.

[IMF]

I’m giving the Pacers a 9, despite some weirdness from the fan base. I think the team is fantastically ran overall, the only thing keeping them from a 10 is some draft misses that have been vastly overemphasized by some.

The only really bad draft miss was TJ Leaf (OG was on the board ) and I feel Bird had his fingers on that one (Bird/Pritchard transition was happening during that offseason)

Getting Nembhard and Sheppard with late picks to me already redeems any weird consternation about Chris Duarte at 13. I’m completely happy with Mathurin and Walker picks. The draft is such a crap shoot I doubt there’s a team that doesn’t have a few misses in the same time period. Meanwhile Pritchard has been an 11/10 on trades.

[Calvin Klein]

I would not rate Suns office if I was a fan, since they obviously had to deal with so called new owner hands on syndrome. Key moves this past year were obviously forced by new owner, front office were just executioners at the end.

Pretty much this. But I'm including Ishbia and Isiah as part of the FO. So they get a 4 from me and maybe even less.

Drafting has been so bad for so long though. But that goes even for previous FOs. Only hits in the draft were Booker and Bridges.

Ayton pick is the worst mistake in Suns history and then they pass on Haliburton for Jalen Smith, who they give up on.

[tbhawksfan1]

Nick Resseler and his wet behind the ears yes men and when all else fails Daddy calls the shots. Hawks are so******